Policy engagement

Member and Trustee of the Food Ethics Council UK, an independent charity working to make the food system fairer.

Has been a member of several external research steering groups and government committees: e.g. for the Food Standards Agency and for Defra.

Other professional activities

Registered Public Health Nutritionist who works on the social and policy aspects of the food system.

For many years worked in the global South, primarily through the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and UN agencies; now working more on food and nutrition policy and social problems in the North/Europe.

Since 2000 based in the Social Policy group in the Department of Sociology of the University of Warwick and working with colleagues in Warwick Crop Centre and PAIS.

Was a Senior Marie Curie Research Fellow at University College Dublin in early 2008, working on implementing rights based approaches to food poverty.